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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"New Comedy"”.
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Ο ΚΩΜΙΚΟΣ ΠΟΙΗΤΗΣ ΦΙΛΗΜΩΝ
… YEARS BETWEEN 365-260 B.C. HE IS A POET OF THE NEW COMEDY. HE WROTE 97 PLAYS AND GAINED MANY THEATRICAL VICTORIES. HE WROTE A MYTHOLOGICAL COMEDY. THE TITLES OF HIS COMEDIES EXPRESS NATIONALITIES, CHARACTERS AND OTHER HUMAN PROBLEMS. THE INTRODUCTION CONTAINS ALSO HIS PHILOSOPHICAL IDEAS, HIS …
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'Speech unhindered': A study of irony in the Acts of the Apostles
… behaviours like it hint that Luke-Acts draws on New Comic theatre to help interpret its content. Taken together, the use of eironeia-like behaviours, of agnoia (“ignorance”), peripeteia (“reversal”), and other New Comic aspects, suggests that we must pay more attention to Luke’s knowledge of New …
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A Critical Edition Of Benjamin Hoadley's "the Suspicious Husband" (1747)
… been published in English Plays, 1660-1820, New York, 1935. The play has some importance in the light of the nature of its satiric comedy as it relates to the more sentimental comedy of the mid-eighteenth century, and the importance of its stage history with relation to David Garrick's own …
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Mixing the Roman miles: Character Development in Terence's Eunuchus
In my thesis I explore Terences innovative development of three stock characters: Chaerea, the adulescens amator, Thraso, the miles gloriosus, and Gnatho, the parasitus. In the Eunuchus Terence provides each of these characters with a mythological parallel that reveals the character's inner …